Category: Wordpress

If your domain host happens to crash and they go ahead and restore MySQL data that is a few days old, which database tables are likely to be most important to incrementally rebuilding your WordPress data?

Here’s what I discovered recently when I had to do that – these are the key tables for posts, media, comments, categories and tags:

Guess what? WordPress.com is different toWordPress.org. WordPress.org is self hosted and you can do things like install plugins. WordPress.com is hosted by, uh, WordPress and you can’t install plugins. But the com version is very easy to set up and use and everything kinda just works.

But have you ever tried to get aLightboxstyle ‘click tozoom‘ effect in WordPress.com? Its not immediately obvious, so after figuring it out I wanted to share it.

Firstly, go to your admin dashboard and tick the “Display all your gallery pictures in a cool mosaic” option.

Then, go toa post that has a plain imageand start Editing it:

Position your cursor above the old image, then click Add Media.Important: select Multiple Images here and you will get a Continue button:

In the next screen, click Edit and then use the X to remove any superfluous images, so you can just have one image in the ‘gallery’ if you like:

Set your Layout to Tiled Mosaic and Link toAttachment Page:

After inserting this gallery, you will see that there is a new Gallery object above the old image:

Now, you can delete the old image:

And Update the post:

Now, when you go to the post and click on the image, it will ‘zoom‘ to the image like this: